Music Link Exchange!

Hi, and welcome to the "music link exchange" page.
Nowadays, fooling the search engines is becoming almost impossible.
While some SEO-specialists still declare to have found the magical stone
that will bring rich and fortune to the poor souls who are willing to
believe them.

However, there is one rule that you got to remember when starting a
website business, and that's building quality and relevant information.
With other words good quality information in any form and this can also
mean images and video. Technology never stand still.

And what about linking strategies!! Well.. Search Engines like
Google and Yahoo, demand quality info. And if people and webmasters are
linking to your site, this means that your site is worthwhile to link
to. Thats exactly how search engines define what are quality sites and
what aren't.

The many good quality in-pointing links your site get , the more
credibility your site will have with the Search Engines and their eight
legged robots who are crawling around in cyber space like crazy. It's an
exciting world, and a huge world. An enormous network of linking sites
, exceeding every barrier and frontier on our planet.

Enough sentimental talk, now the serious talk .

Music link exchange and 'Hit 'popularity?

Hit' popularity is the amount of in-pointing links your site got.
But...many in-pointing links doesn't means necessarily that your site
will have a high page-ranking.

This will more depending of the quality of those( in-bound)
links, and also the amount of links that goes out of your site. If you
have 100 in-pointing links of poor quality, and a 1000 or so out links,
then you will rank low. Other way around and your site will rank high,
theoretically of course.

Bottom line! Reciprocates links are not the most important issue
for your link popularity. More important is relevant quality content.

So where do we start. We always start at the beginning.

First this means your site have to deliver quality info , with
great content,fantastic images , or nice video material. All the info
has the be theme related , even the displaying videos on your web site
must be content binded.

What the content concerns, here you can find some great writing tips .

The more quality your site has ( in any form ), the more web sites will do a music link exchange with your site.

How can you track sites that are linking to your site?

Easy, go to Yahoo,google or MSN and type in the "yourdomain name"..

As an exsample:

Yahoo Linkdomain:song-makes-musicbusiness.com

Google link:www.song-makes-musicbusiness.com

MSN link:song-makes-musicbusiness.com

Remember, google is hardest to convince when it's about showing
in-pointing links. They know very well that some sites are linking to
yours , but.. they have an attitude of 'see nothing' .

Why Google is acting like this is a mystery. Don't loose your sleep for it, it's just the way it is.

Another source where you find out all about your link popularity
and search engine saturation, is Acxion Digital: Your SEO
Tool. Visit this site and you'll understand why this tool is a great
help to evaluate your site. To see how your site is growing or how it
stands to other competing websites.

So a good tip. Know your competition .

We have mentioned the advantages of a music link exchange, but
there are also some downsides of providing outgoing links in exchange
for inbound links.

these are- If your visitor clicks on a link,you maybe lose your visitor to an other site and never see him/her back again.

-If you have Google adsens on your site, people will click on the links and lesser on the adsens.

- Also, our visitor can be distracted by too many options.

I know, these are just a few contras and its often 'mind ones P's and q's' with link exchanges.

So.. try to get a music link exchange with high quality, relevant
sites. Do it for yourself and your visitor to demonstrate your best
intentions for her well-being. Never exchange links with an
competitive-site or with an off topic, low quality site. Just decline
politely.

If you reciprocate a link with a bad site, you are telling the
search engines that you are putting your stamp of approval on that site.
If that site happens to be a member of a link farm or some other spamm
means to artificially elevate link popularity, you will harm your site
and will be penalized.

Bottom line. Exchanging links with everybody who's dropping by is not a smart thing to do.

It only will damage your credibility, believe me. I too have learned out of mistakes. That's live folks.

About the other links, namely the inbounds sites. You have no
control about them, and you can't do anything against it. Just let it
be.

So, check-out every music link exchange request, and use your own
personal evaluation of the quality and nature of the sites content.
Some tips if you reciprocate links with an other site.

Nine link exchange tips!

Things that you have to keep in mind when you go for an exchange of links..:

• 1 If a site contact you for a music link exchange, then -check if
they have link-up your site. - Check the content and the nature of the
site ( the link page. for instants.) -If they haven't add a link,after
you agree with a music link exchange, check again after 3 day's or so.
If your link isn't up, DELETE the link. Don't be to sentimental about
it. They maybe contact you again. Explain in a polite way why you've
deleted there link, and don't bother about them any more. Believe me, they
are just a waste of(your) time.

• 2- Check-out if you reciprocate link is added to a link farm.
If that's the case, You only can delete their link, and leave it that
way.

• 3 Again Check if the site is non-competing. true. If your just
starting out and you exchange links with an competing website , you
loose your visitors to that site. maybe the site exist longer,is
stronger and bigger than yours. Most of all , it's your competition. You
like it or not, you loose if you do exchange with them.

• 4- Add your link with the(music) directories. They evaluate
your site and if they are accepting to add your link,then your site get
more credibility wit the SE. Go and find them. Don't reciprocate links
with directories. After all, it's their job to share information. Good
for you of course , the more inbound links your site get the better it
is for your link popularity.

• 5- A few places where you can get a link are:dmoz ( Yahoo
directory),turnpike.net, Somuch.com, Musikfinds.com Also try this/
Sitesell!Value exchange If your site has more than 20 pages.

• 6- Never pay for a search engine listing when they are
promising to list your web site to thousands Search Engines. It's just a
waste of money.

• 7- Never link-out from your Home page. Think about this.A
visitor comes to your site through the home page clicks on a link, and
gone he is. Never he will come back again . So never link away from your
site from your home page. Your visitor has to see at least two pages
before he can click out.

• 8- When you want to create a lot of inbound links, then think about starting an affiliate program.

• 9-Build up your site like a pyramid. In other words: First your
home page, then 5 to 15 second tier pages and every second tier page
links again to 5 to 15 third tier pages. The trick is to create some
links inside your site. Links that simply refer to other content into
your web site. In fact, here will your link popularity start.

4. never link back. Check if there's a reciprocate link on the site. If not, DELETE.

5. Your music link exchange partner runs the link through a redirect on his own page before sending it to you. Dirty .

6. You submit an "Add link" form, then you find there is a hidden
cost. This can happen with some third degree directories. Speaking of a
dirty business!

7. You get a link al right, but you discover that your music
exchange link is buried somewhere ten clicks away from the home page.
DELETE that link ASAP. It's useless for your site. A link always one
click from the home page. With other words. A second tier link will be
seen by the Search Engines, the rest is useless.

8. Make links page inaccessible via a click-path from home page.
This is called an -Orphan Link, There's no access to the link page. Very
badly regarded by search Engines. So, You get an email with the Link
url, but if you visit your link-exchange partner's site, then you can't
find your link..

9. Link partner frames the link-bearing page within a
high-ranking site. It don't brings your site any benefits. Nasty, very
nasty, and not always easy to find out. Here you have to go to your link
partner's home page and then go to the link page or the page where your
link should be found.. If not so.. There's something wrong.. link fraud
for sure..

10. Some times link partners change their mind about a music link
exchange with your site, and after a month or so they delete your link
for whatever reason without letting you know.. Check it...Write down with who you do an exchange, and when you did it.. Check it from time to time...